A notable September 11th truther has maxed out on his contributions to Georgia Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff&#8217;s Senate campaign.
Jim Barksdale, a former Georgia Senate candidate himself, donated $5,600 to Ossoff&#8217;s bid to unseat Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in both the primary and general election, according to <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00718866/1358381/sa/ALL">Federal Election Commission</a> (FEC) filings.
Barksdale made waves last month, only a day after the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, by promulgating conspiracy theories such as that the U.S. government is behind the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and the al-Qaeda operated terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 Americans and injured more than 6,000 others.
&#8220;With the appropriate 9-11 reflections behind us, let&#8217;s remember that the real takeaway from 9-11 as [with the] Kennedy assassination, is that our [government] is hiding something from us, as corrupt powers manipulate us into wars,&#8221; Barksdale tweeted at the time. &#8220;We need [government] working for Americans; not [money] and foreign power.&#8221;
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With the appropriate 9-11 reflections behind us, let’s remember that the real takeaway from 9-11, as w/ Kennedy assassination, is that our Gov’t is hiding something from us, as corrupt powers manipulate us into wars. We need govt working for Americans; not $ and foreign powers.
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&#8220;This is what a coverup looks like. Americans should know what happened, and expose the truth, no matter where it leads,&#8221; Barksdale responded after the initial tweet was highlighted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#8217;s (AJC) political reporter, Greg Bluestein.
Barksdale, an Atlanta-based investment manager, unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2016 against incumbent Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA). Following his loss, he told the AJC that he would like to help other Democratic candidates with their own races.
Ossoff announced in September that he was officially launching a Senate bid to challenge Perdue, a one-term incumbent. The investigative journalist-turned-aspiring-politician gained nationwide attention after he lost his race for Georgia&#8217;s 6th Congressional District in 2017 to former Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA) in the special election to replace Tom Price.
Price vacated the seat after he was nominated to the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump. The special election set the record for the most expensive House race of all time, with more than $50 million spent, largely by outside groups.
The nationally watched election greatly boosted Ossoff&#8217;s profile, and he is now considered to be the most high-profile candidate running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Perdue when his term expires in 2020.
&#8220;We have squandered trillions on endless wars. We have squandered trillions on bailouts for failed banks. We have squandered trillions on tax cuts for wealthy donors. Then we’re told there’s noting left over for the people,&#8221; Ossoff told the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/breaking-ossoff-run-for-senate-georgia/S7S3FWCEDm7UY6J4gN6fSL/#">Atlanta Journal Constitution</a> following his Senate announcement. &#8220;The corruption must be rooted out. And Senator David Perdue is a caricature of Washington corruption.&#8221;
Accordingly, Ossoff has been seeking to portray Perdue as a corrupt politician entwined in D.C. politics, but he has failed to provide any examples to strengthen his case.
Barksdale endorsed Ossoff during his unsuccessful congressional run and even hosted a fundraiser for his election campaign, but aside from personal donations, it is not clear if he will assist in the campaign further.
&#8220;Jim Barksdale has brazenly pushed 9-11 conspiracy theories that dishonor the memories of those who gave their lives in a horrific terrorist attack and insult those who lost loved ones that day,&#8221; Georgia Action Fund Executive Director John Burke told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Jon Ossoff&#8217;s willingness to accept money from a politician who uses their platform to push insulting and baseless conspiracy theories raises serious questions about his character.&#8221;
Ossoff&#8217;s campaign did not return The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
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Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) honored the legacy of his fellow Georgia colleague Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) on Tuesday in preparation for his forthcoming retirement.
&#8220;I rise today with mixed emotions. I rise to recognize an incredible Georgian, a true statesman, a titan of the United States Senate, and maybe most importantly, a friend to me and many people here and back home in Georgia,&#8221; Perdue said while speaking on the Senate floor.
&#8220;It will be hard to see him go, but the realty is, he won&#8217;t go. He&#8217;ll still be involved here. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get the phone calls about when we might have disagreed on a vote, or why didn&#8217;t I think about this. He&#8217;s been a tremendous partner for me these last four years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Johnny has left a profound legacy that’s worth celebrating, one that we should all strive to follow here in this body.&#8221;
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Perdue&#8217;s remarks come less than a month after Isakson announced that he would be stepping down from his U.S. Senate seat at the end of the year due to ongoing health issues.
The beloved senator revealed in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. In July, Isakson was hospitalized after he fell in his Washington, D.C., apartment and fractured four of his ribs and tore a rotator cuff, for which he is still undergoing physical therapy. Only days before he announced his retirement, the Georgia senator underwent surgery to remove a two-centimeter renal cell carcinoma from one of his kidneys.
&#8220;He epitomizes the best for the United States Senate. His legacy can be summed up in one word: service,&#8221; Perdue said. &#8220;No matter what he does, Johnny puts other people before himself.&#8221;
&#8220;Johnny puts other people first before himself. He doesn&#8217;t do it for recognition or fame. Many times, he does it when people don’t notice or know he did it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He does it because it&#8217;s the right thing to do.&#8221;
Perdue further commended Isakson for his long and accomplished career serving the people of Georgia. While Isakson notably was the first Republican senator in Georgia to win a third term, he also is the only elected official to serve in Georgia&#8217;s State House, Georgia&#8217;s State Senate, the United States House, and the United States Senate.
Perdue noted that Isakson&#8217;s career also included his time in the private sector, in the Georgia Air National Guard, and even as a local Sunday school teacher for more than three decades.
&#8220;His dedication to service is even more impressive because it has produced incredible results for our country. This town has a lot of activity, but it&#8217;s short on results. Johnny knows the difference,&#8221; Perdue said before touting Isakson&#8217;s work as the chairman of the Senate Veterans Administration Committee, as well as his successful legislation impacting agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and criminal justice.
&#8220;When he speaks, people listen. He gets the job done. He understands what priority means,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Yet, Johnny isn&#8217;t the kind of leader who gives orders and makes demands. He&#8217;s someone who leads from place of respect, compromise, and understanding with both sides of the aisle.&#8221;
&#8220;With Johnny, it doesn&#8217;t matter who you are, or what party you’re in, or where you&#8217;re from,&#8221; Perdue added. &#8220;He&#8217;s always there to talk and always ready to listen.&#8221;
Isakson&#8217;s Senate seat does not expire until 2022, so there will be three years remaining in his term when he steps down on December 31, 2019. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will appoint someone to fill the vacant seat through the end of 2020, at which time the seat will be subject to a special election.
&#8220;Of course the road has not always been easy for Johnny. Not every battle has been won, not all news has been good,&#8221; Perdue said. &#8220;What I&#8217;ve always admired about him though is his stalwart resilience — whenever circumstances have tried to knock him down, he always gets back up with a smile and he keeps serving others.&#8221;
&#8220;You feel guilty when you&#8217;re around Johnny Isakson when you&#8217;re having a bad day,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If Johnny asks how you&#8217;re doing, you better say &#8216;great&#8217; because he&#8217;s going to give you that same answer.&#8221;

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Failed Georgia congressional candidate Jon Ossoff announced on Monday evening that he was officially launching a bid to unseat Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in the state of Georgia.
&#8220;Georgia, I&#8217;m running for Senate,&#8221; Ossoff wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Political corruption threatens our republic and the future of the planet. The battle we began in Georgia in 2017 will be won in Georgia in 2020 when we win the White House and the Senate.&#8221;
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The battle we *began* in Georgia in 2017 will be *won* in Georgia in 2020 when we win the White House and the Senate.
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Ossoff notably lost his race for Georgia&#8217;s 6th Congressional District in 2017 to former Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA) in the special election to replace Tom Price. Price vacated the seat after he was nominated to the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump. The special election set the record for the most expensive House race of all time, with more than $50 million spent, largely by outside groups.
&#8220;I believe that we are all called to fight the abuse of power, even when the odds are against us. So, from the darkness in a district where the last Democrat lost by 23 points, I ran for Congress,&#8221; Ossoff says in his first campaign ad. &#8220;It was one of the toughest races in history, and a heartbreaking loss, but we were just getting started.&#8221;
&#8220;We didn&#8217;t give up … Georgians who poured their hearts and souls into a campaign the first time – they didn&#8217;t give up,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;They went on to flip 14 state house districts, they joined the army that Stacey Abrams built to change our state forever, and they helped Democrats across this country win back the House.&#8221;
The nationally watched election greatly boosted Ossoff’s profile, and he is now considered to be the most high-profile candidate running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Perdue when his term expires in 2020.
&#8220;We have squandered trillions on endless wars. We have squandered trillions on bailouts for failed banks. We have squandered trillions on tax cuts for wealthy donors. Then we&#8217;re told there&#8217;s noting left over for the people,&#8221; Ossoff told the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/breaking-ossoff-run-for-senate-georgia/S7S3FWCEDm7UY6J4gN6fSL/#">Atlanta Journal Constitution</a> on Monday. &#8220;The corruption must be rooted out. And Senator David Perdue is a caricature of Washington corruption.&#8221;
He also explained to the AJC that his plan is to &#8220;raise a grassroots army unlike any this state has ever seen&#8221; by expanding his network of supporters.
Ossoff first revealed in December that he was mulling over a second run for political office and was considering a challenge to Perdue. Interestingly, the investigative journalist-turned-aspiring-politician also called on failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to run for the Senate seat as well. Abrams announced in April that she would not run for Senate in 2020.
Ossoff used his political infrastructure and fundraising lists to help Abrams, and other down-ticket Democratic candidates, during her unsuccessful run for governor during the 2018 midterm election cycle. In Ossoff&#8217;s nearly four-minute campaign advertisement, he mentions Abrams multiple times, in what may signal a strong partnership between the two failed candidates as they seek to flip the consistently red state blue.

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Since 2015, Jonesboro, Georgia, residents and those in the surrounding areas had been terrorized by a series of rapes. At first, investigators weren’t sure the rapes were connected, since the method used to intimidate or find victims differed. Evidence would later suggest that one man was behind each of the attacks.
For nearly three years, police were unable to figure out who was committing the rapes, despite police sketches and information from the victims. The tides finally turned in 2018, when the man who has now been charged with the crimes joined the Clayton County Police Department academy. Kenneth Bowen III was arrested last Tuesday for seven rapes and one sexual battery.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/cops-background-check-linked-former-police-recruit-clayton-county-rapes/guCqRA01rYHNQmDT3vapkL/">reported</a> that Bowen joined the police academy on June 25, 2018 but was fired less than three months later after he showed up to training four hours late and lied to supervising officers about where he was.
At the time, police were still trying to figure out who was raping black women. The AJC reported that the most recent attack involved a woman who was raped in her home at knifepoint. The attack was interrupted when the woman’s boyfriend came home. The perpetrator was able to get away before police could find him.
During a press conference last Wednesday announcing the arrest, Clayton County Police Chief Keven Roberts said that Bowen may not have been caught had he not joined the police academy. During the investigation, police “realized that it’s possible that if he was committing these crimes, breaking into women’s windows and assaulting people by buildings near their apartment complexes, then somebody over the last few years must have talked to police and said, ‘This guy is a suspicious person in the area,’” said Lt. Thomas Reimers, a Clayton County investigators who worked on the case.
When investigators looked back through 911 calls regarding suspicious people near the attacks, they came across Bowen’s name. They then looked over incident reports “to see if any of the details pointed to Bowen,” the AJC reported. They discovered that victims had mentioned tattoos on the attacker’s right arm and the vehicle he in which he escaped. Police discovered photos on Bowen’s social media accounts and learned he had a car that matched the vehicle description. Also, he looked like the police sketches of the suspect.
Further, police came across a photo that showed a family member of Bowen’s in a police uniform. This is when police realized their suspect also had briefly worked for them. More background information revealed the tattoos mentioned by victims matched those on Bowen’s arm.
Police then obtained a warrant for Bowen’s DNA and were able to forensically link Bowen to rapes and the sexual battery. The AJC reported that the attacks “all happened within a 2-mile radius of where Bowen lived.”
Reimers thanked the victims for coming forward to help catch their attacker.
“I wanted to address the victims,” he said. “They are true survivors. Without them coming forward to the police department to provide details of the assaults in intimate detail and sitting down with [Georgia Bureau of Investigation sketch artist] Kelly Lawson, we would not have been able to get a sketch of the individual.”

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Sen. Johnny Isakson announced on Wednesday that he will be stepping down from his United States Senate seat at the end of the year due to ongoing health issues.
&#8220;After much prayer and consultation with my family and my doctors, I have made the very tough decision to leave the U.S. Senate at the end of this year,&#8221; Isakson said in a statement. &#8220;I have informed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that I will resign my Senate seat effective December 31, 2019. I am leaving a job I love because my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family, and my staff.&#8221;
Isakson revealed in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. In July, the Georgia senator was hospitalized after he fell in his Washington, D.C. apartment and fractured four of his ribs and tore a rotator cuff, for which he is still undergoing physical therapy. And on Monday, he underwent surgery to remove a two-centimeter renal cell carcinoma from one of his kidneys. Isakson cited the aforementioned health issues as a reason for his retirement.
&#8220;In my 40 years in elected office, I have always put my constituents and my state of Georgia first,&#8221; Isakson said. &#8220;With the mounting health challenges I am facing, I have to conclude that I will not be able to do the job over the long term in the manner the citizens of Georgia deserve.&#8221;
&#8220;It goes against every fiber of my being to leave in the middle of my Senate term,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I know it&#8217;s the right thing to do on behalf of my state.&#8221;
Isakson won reelection to his Georgia seat for a third term in 2016, making him the first GOP senator in the state to do so. He is also the only elected official to serve in Georgia&#8217;s State House, Georgia&#8217;s State Senate, the United States House, and the United States Senate.
Isakson&#8217;s Senate seat does not expire until 2022, so there will be three years remaining in his term when he steps down. Consequently, Kemp will appoint someone to fill the vacant seat through the end of 2020, at which time the seat will be subject to a special election. A regular election will commence in 2022 for a full six-year term.
Isakson is the chairman of both the Senate Committee on Veterans&#8217; Affairs and the Select Committee on Ethics. He also sits on the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, of which he is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety.
&#8220;I look forward to returning to Washington on September 9 when the Senate goes back into session,&#8221; Isakson said. &#8220;And after December 31, I look forward to continuing to help the people of Georgia in any way I can and also help those who are working toward a cure for Parkinson&#8217;s.&#8221;
“Senator Johnny Isakson has epitomized public service for most of my lifetime,&#8221; Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer told The Daily Wire. &#8220;He is a pioneering Republican, a wonderful family man and a great Georgian. I wish him the best in his retirement as an era in Georgia politics ends.”

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On Tuesday, the first day of school at Clark Atlanta University, one of a group of historically black colleges, a male shooter fired into a group of roughly 200 students, wounding four female students who attended either Clark Atlanta or nearby Spelman College. The shooting occurred outside the library, which is used by students from nearby colleges as well. The students were holding a party to mark the end of orientation, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/students-shot-block-party-clark-atlanta-university-65093996">ABC News</a> reported.
Atlanta police Capt. William Ricker stated, “It appears there were two separate groups that were targeting each other, and these people were just caught in the crossfire.”
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By late Wednesday, no suspect had yet been arrested. Clark Atlanta’s Office of Religious Life stated, “Evil will not have its way on our campus.” Clark Atlanta interim President Lucille Maugé added, “We are asking our faculty to be aware and prepared to support those students experiencing the effects of this incident.”
The university <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/2-shot-near-clark-atlanta-university-library-police-say/977876297">released a statement</a> saying, “One of our top priorities at CAU is the safety and security of our students. Here at Clark Atlanta University, and across the country, students have the right to gather together in celebration without the fear of violence. We will not stand for it in the Atlanta University Center. We are working diligently with Atlanta PD to identify those involved.”
Darryl B. Holloman, Vice President, Office of Student Affairs at Spelman College released a <a href="Darryl%20B.%20Holloman,%20Ph.D.%20%20Vice%20President%20Office%20of%20Student%20Affairs">statement</a> reading in part, “We are asking our faculty to be aware and prepared to support those students experiencing the effects of this tragedy who may not be in class, as well as others who will attend class, but will need guidance and an opportunity to discuss any concerns. Public Safety has shared the following advisory: Stay clear of the area where this incident occurred as it remains an active crime scene. There is no reason to believe that this incident represents an on-going threat to any individual or the community-at-large.”
Police spokesman Carlos Campos said, “We’re always very much aware when school is open at the campuses inside the city of Atlanta and we do make a concerted effort to work closely with the campus police, and make sure we properly patrol our areas.” Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released a statement reading, “When parents across this country have entrusted the well-being of their children to our city, it is most important that we continue to work with our partners to ensure their safety … we as a community will continue to work with the Atlanta University Center and campus police, and all of our colleges and universities to take meaningful action to keep our campuses safe.”
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Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams explained on Monday that nine months after she lost the race, she still refuses to concede because it would imply the election was honest.
“Because concession means to say that the process was fair,” Abrams replied to CBS’s Gayle King when asked why she refuses to concede.
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Abrams lost her Georgia election against now-Gov. Brian Kemp by more than 55,000 votes, however, she stated that in the 10 days following election night, her campaign received more than 50,000 phone calls from Georgia residents who were claiming that they had been denied the right to vote. If true, that would have closed the gap and triggered a recount.
“I am complicit if I say that system is fair. I did not deny the legal sufficiency of the election,” Abrams said. “I am not claiming to be the governor of Georgia despite what Breitbart and others like to say.”
Abrams’ 2018 campaign has been consistently accusing both Kemp and the State of Georgia of suppressing the minority vote since even prior to Election Day. In October 2018, the campaign released a statement claiming that Kemp is “maliciously wielding the power of his office to suppress the vote for political gain and silences the voices of thousands of eligible voters – the majority of them people of color.”
There has been no evidence to corroborate the claim.
“What I have said is that we won the battle of making sure more voices were heard because we had the highest record turnout in Georgia history for Democrats,” Abrams said to King.
“But the other thing to remember is, look, because there are more people in the water, that doesn’t mean there are fewer sharks,” she added. “You can have higher turnout, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that voter suppression is real and affecting people across the country.”
Immediately following Abrams’ failed bid for the governorship, the former Georgia lawmaker launched the organization Fair Fight Action to “pursue accountability in Georgia’s elections and integrity in the process of maintaining our voter rolls,” according to a press release.
Fair Fight Action <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5331615/Fair-Fight-Action-v-Crittenden-Complaint.pdf">filed a lawsuit</a> against the state of Georgia only two weeks after the 2018 election, suing for what she alleges is widespread voter suppression in her statewide race. Interestingly, the lawsuit points to legislation that Abrams was <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-blue-democratic-debate-for-governor-takes-vouchers-early-voting/vWMKIkWj3DfX7YlwmcgBPO/">instrumental in enacting</a> while she was a member of the Georgia State Assembly. The lawsuit is still ongoing.
Abrams revealed last week that she launched a new initiative called Fair Fight 2020, which is seemingly an extension of Fair Fight Action. Though billed as an initiative for “free, fair, and secure elections,” its focus is on electing Democrats.
“If we start early and work together, we will ensure that every American voter’s voice is heard and that Democrats up and down the ballot will win,” the organization’s <a href="https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/">website</a> reads.
Abrams announced that Fair Fight 2020’s launch means she will be forgoing a bid for the presidency.

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Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams continued to promulgate her longstanding claim that her 2018 election was “stolen” because of voter suppression.
“I think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia,” Abrams said on Sunday while appearing on MSNBC’s “American Swamp.”
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“I don’t know that empirically, I would have won,” she continued. “But if you add together the thousands of people who faced extraordinary long lines, who faced hurdles that should not happen in a democracy, the votes that we know were not counted, the secretary of state who was also my opponent in the race purged more than 1.4 million voters over basically an eight-year period.”
Abrams and her campaign have been routinely accusing now-Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of racist voter suppression going back even prior to Election Day. Kemp, however, handily won the statewide election by more than 55,000 votes.
Following Abrams’ loss, she appeared regularly on cable news shows and delivered countless speeches repeating the assertions, but there has been no evidence to corroborate Abrams’ claims of voter suppression.
Regardless, the former Georgia state lawmaker continued to accuse Kemp, who served as Georgia secretary of state during the election, of purging residents from the voter rolls in order to keep people — primarily African-Americans — from voting.
While the law that allowed Kemp to purge voter rolls — as a way to remove people who had moved out of the state or had died — was enacted by Democrats, Abrams criticized the “aggressiveness with which it was applied” and stated that “people were purged who had not matched any of the criteria for being removed from the rolls.”
Abrams <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/13/georgia-gop-gubernatorial-voter-suppression/">went after Kemp</a> for a similar reason a month prior to the election, calling on him to resign after contending that he was blocking black constituents from registering to vote. The Georgia GOP pushed back, explaining that the aforementioned applications were in a “pending” status — neither purged nor blocked, as Abrams claimed.
Pending applications were flagged due to missing information on registration forms, typically caused by failing to include registrants’ driver’s license numbers, but voters with pending applications could present identification at the polls to receive a regular ballot and vote.
At the time, the Georgia GOP further criticized Abrams’ own voter registration initiative for being responsible for a large portion of the flagged applications.
The <a href="http://newgeorgiaproject.org/about/">New Georgia Project</a>, which was founded by Abrams to register “all eligible, unregistered citizens of color in Georgia” to vote, canvasses with paper forms rather than via the Online Voter Registration (OVR). Since the OVR system prohibits a “pending” status, if the New Georgia Project had registered voters online, 40% of the applications in question would not have been flagged as “pending,” according to the Georgia GOP.
Following the election, Abrams and her voter initiative Fair Fight Action <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5331615/Fair-Fight-Action-v-Crittenden-Complaint.pdf">sued the state of Georgia</a> over alleged widespread, racially motivated voter suppression. Interestingly, the lawsuit condemns legislation that Abrams herself <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-blue-democratic-debate-for-governor-takes-vouchers-early-voting/vWMKIkWj3DfX7YlwmcgBPO/">helped pass</a> as a member of the Georgia General Assembly.
“We cannot undo centuries of oppression and centuries of bad action with good intention and good will without actually putting in place laws to force our better angels,” Abrams said of the ongoing lawsuit.
Accordingly, she has refused to refer to Kemp as the “legitimate” governor and has repeatedly declined to concede the election because, she stated, a concession implies that the race was “right and true and proper.”

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The &#8220;triggering&#8221; hit new levels during the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) National Convention in Georgia this past weekend. In leaked clips of the event, Democratic Socialists lash out at each other for various offenses, such as using &#8220;gendered language&#8221; and &#8220;whispering.&#8221; Adding to the bizarre nature of the event, which comes off as a satirical skit being laid on a bit too thick, members of DSA whine about what triggers them by first announcing a &#8220;point of personal privilege.&#8221;
&#8220;Uh, quick point of privilege, quick point of personal privilege, um guys — first of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he/him,&#8221; a man from the convention interrupts in one of the viral clips. &#8220;I just want to say, can we please keep the chatter to the minimum? I&#8217;m one of the people who&#8217;s very, very prone to sensory overload. There’s a lot of whispering and chattering going on. It&#8217;s making it very difficult for me to focus. Please, I know we&#8217;re all fresh and ready to go, but can we please just keep the chatter to a minimum? It&#8217;s affecting my ability to focus. Thank you.&#8221;
The chair answers, &#8220;Thank you, comrade.&#8221;
The peace was short-lived, however. A loud angry male voice chimes in, &#8220;Point of personal privilege! Point of personal privilege! Please do not use gendered language to address everyone!&#8221;
&#8220;Okay,&#8221; the chair responds weakly.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Meanwhile at the Democratic Socialists of America conference&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/fT0GfHIFFI">pic.twitter.com/fT0GfHIFFI</a>
— Young Americans Against Socialism (@YAAS_America) <a href="https://twitter.com/YAAS_America/status/1157885849796775936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In another clip of the event, &#8220;James Jackson, Sacramento, He/Him&#8221; is back for more complaining, and he&#8217;s more annoyed than ever by the un-comradely actions of his peers.
&#8220;Quick point of privilege once again!&#8221; he interrupts. &#8220;Hi, James Jackson, Sacramento, DSA, he/him.&#8221;
&#8220;I have already asked people to be mindful of the chatter of their comrades who are sensitive to sensory overload. And that goes double for the heckling and the hissing. It is also triggering to my anxiety. Like, being comradely isn&#8217;t just for like, you know, let’s keep things civil or whatever. It&#8217;s so people aren&#8217;t going to get triggered, and so that it doesn&#8217;t affect their performance as a delegate. Okay? Your need to express yourself is important, but you need to express yourself should not trump [my needs].&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">It gets better, triggered anxiety comrade has another meltdown. Lmfao <a href="https://t.co/lljr4tF0yV">pic.twitter.com/lljr4tF0yV</a>
— Joaquin Castro is an Ass Hole (@therealShane44) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealShane44/status/1157893365268013056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Aside from no whispering and no gendered language, there were a slew of other rules assigned to DSA members. In a clip from the start of the convention, one of the leaders barred &#8220;aggressive scents&#8221; from &#8220;quiet rooms&#8221; and directed his peers to &#8220;try to be chill&#8221; and avoid talking to cops &#8220;for any reason at all&#8221; and &#8220;MAGA a**holes.&#8221; Also, their sense of charity was iconically meant to be tamed: no letting in your left-wing pals!
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Democratic Socialists of America convention rules:
No “aggressive scents” in the quiet room 
No misuse of doors 
No interacting with cops 
No talking to the press
I’m sorry, I thought this was America.
h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Oil_Guns_Merica</a> <a href="https://t.co/CNES5jaXr6">pic.twitter.com/CNES5jaXr6</a>
— Young Americans Against Socialism (@YAAS_America) <a href="https://twitter.com/YAAS_America/status/1158088364912009216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Cobb County, Georgia Police Department announced on Tuesday that it will not be filing any charges in the alleged incident wherein a Democratic Georgia lawmaker claimed a man told her to &#8220;go back to where&#8221; she &#8220;came from.&#8221;
State Rep. Erica Thomas made the claim on Friday in a tweet and a Facebook video, both of which went viral. Thomas&#8217; claim was heavily disputed on Saturday after the man, Eric Sparkes, confronted her about the incident during a media interview she gave at the grocery store where the encounter took place.
&#8220;This white man comes up to me and says, &#8216;You lazy son of b**ch. You need to go back where you came from,'&#8221; Thomas <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/state-rep-says-man-told-her-to-go-back-where-you-came-from-at-grocery-store/968677735">alleged</a>. &#8220;Sir, you don&#8217;t even know me. I&#8217;m not lazy. I&#8217;m nine months pregnant.&#8221;
&#8220;I called you a lazy (expletive),&#8221; Sparkes told Thomas during the media appearance. &#8220;That&#8217;s the worst thing I said.&#8221;
Sparkes says that he is a Cuban Democrat and that Thomas was exaggerating her claims for &#8220;political purposes.&#8221;
&#8220;This woman is playing the victim for political purposes because she is a state legislator,&#8221; Sparkes said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat and will vote Democrat for the rest of my life, so call me whatever you want to believe. For her political purposes, make it black, white, brown, whatever. It is untrue.&#8221;
After Thomas <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgia-state-rep-erica-thomas-wants-man-arrested-over-alleged-racist-confrontation">called</a> for the police to charge Sparkes, the Cobb County Police Department released the following statement:
<blockquote>On Friday, July 19, 2019 Cobb County Police began investigating an incident at a Publix store involving a dispute between two individuals, Georgia State Representative Erica Thomas and Eric Sparkes. After a thorough investigation both parties have been advised there will be no charges made by the Cobb County Police Department. Both were provided information on how to contact the Cobb County Magistrate&#8217;s Office if either wished to pursue any further criminal actions.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Here’s the official release from Cobb County Police regarding the incident involving State Rep. Erica Thomas and Eric Sparkes at the grocery store. <a href="https://t.co/VKvKE1ZTN6">pic.twitter.com/VKvKE1ZTN6</a>
— Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) <a href="https://twitter.com/RElliotWSB/status/1153705127364239361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/dispute-builds-over-georgia-lawmaker-confrontation-grocery-store/AB0Aa0HJFc9sI0RvFJSoLP/">reported</a> on Monday that a witness with whom the newspaper spoke regarding the &#8220;go back&#8221; comment said that &#8220;he didn’t hear Sparkes use that phrase.&#8221;

Police Make Announcement After Investigating ‘Go Back’ Incident Involving Georgia Democrat

Georgia Democratic State Rep. Erica Thomas claimed in a tweet on Friday that a white man told her to &#8220;go back to where&#8221; she &#8220;came from&#8221; at a grocery store, a claim that went viral but is now being disputed.
The incident reportedly happened on Friday at an Atlanta-area Publix store, when a man named Eric Sparkes allegedly confronted Thomas for having too many items while in the express checkout lane.
Thomas tweeted: &#8220;Today I was verbally assaulted in the grocery store by a white man who told me I was a lazy SOB and to go back to where I came from bc I had to many items in the express lane. My husband wasn’t there to defend me because he is on Active Duty serving the country I came from USA!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Today I was verbally assaulted in the grocery store by a white man who told me I was a lazy SOB and to go back to where I came from bc I had to many items in the express lane. My husband wasn’t there to defend me because he is on Active Duty serving the country I came from USA!
— Erica Thomas (@itsericathomas) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsericathomas/status/1152417924315004928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thomas&#8217; claim trended at the top of Twitter for most of the day on Saturday and garnered extensive coverage across the media. Thomas also posted about the incident in an emotional video on her Facebook account.
&#8220;This white man comes up to me and says, &#8216;You lazy son of b**ch. You need to go back where you came from,'&#8221; Thomas <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/state-rep-says-man-told-her-to-go-back-where-you-came-from-at-grocery-store/968677735">alleged</a>. &#8220;Sir, you don&#8217;t even know me. I&#8217;m not lazy. I&#8217;m nine months pregnant.&#8221;
WSB-TV went to the Publix store on Saturday to interview Thomas and Sparkes showed up, leading to another confrontation between Thomas and Sparkes.
Sparkes completely denied telling Thomas to &#8220;go back &#8230; where you came from.&#8221;
&#8220;I called you a lazy (expletive),&#8221; Sparkes told Thomas. &#8220;That&#8217;s the worst thing I said.&#8221;
Sparkes told the TV station that he is Cuban, a life-long Democrat, and that he believes Thomas is making her claims &#8220;for political purposes.&#8221;
&#8220;This woman is playing the victim for political purposes because she is a state legislator,&#8221; Sparkes said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat and will vote Democrat for the rest of my life, so call me whatever you want to believe. For her political purposes, make it black, white, brown, whatever. It is untrue.&#8221;
Thomas later slightly changed her statement, saying: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say he said &#8216;go back to your country&#8217; or &#8216;go back to where you came from,&#8217; but he was making those types of references is what I remember.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Viral video from <a href="https://twitter.com/itsericathomas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@itsericathomas</a>: &#8220;This white man comes up to me and says &#8230; &#8216;You need to go back where you came from.'&#8221;
24 hours later: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say he said &#8216;go back to your country&#8217; or &#8216;go back to where you came from,&#8217; but he was making those types of references&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/OKmpgNbjAX">pic.twitter.com/OKmpgNbjAX</a>
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1152780123848019968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire reviewed a Facebook account that appears to belong to Sparkes, and the content on the account perhaps casts even more doubt on the accuracy of Thomas&#8217; claims.
In multiple Facebook posts in the days prior to the incident, Sparkes made it clear that he is not a fan of President Donald Trump and he came to the defense of far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) over Trump&#8217;s attacks on them last week.
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In an interview with leftist media outlet <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sheryl-sandberg-planned-parenthood-donation-abortion-laws_n_5d151134e4b07f6ca57a55c1">HuffPost</a>, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg bragged about a whopping $1 million donation she recently made to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an advocacy group owned by the eponymous abortion giant.
Sandberg told HuffPost that she is doing it to help Planned Parenthood fight what she calls the “draconian laws” recently passed by Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri to protect unborn children.
“I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women, the women who have been marginalized, often women of color, are at stake,” she said. “Planned Parenthood is going to fight back in the courts, in Congress, in the state houses, in the streets, for women’s health and rights.”
“If you are a wealthy woman, you can just fly to New York,” Sandberg continued. “I want to make sure that the women with the fewest resources still have access to these services, and I think that is slipping away every day in our country.”
“We all have to do everything we can to protect women,” she opined, noting that the massive donation came from her, personally — and not from Facebook.
The social media executive bragged that the gesture was “a very strong political statement.” However, Sandberg hedged on whether she supports the Hollywood-led boycotts of the pro-life states. She said that she neither supports nor condemn the boycotts.
“I certainly think people should do what they can,” Sandberg said.
Planned Parenthood President Dr. Leana Wen bragged about the support in a statement.
“Now, more than ever, Sheryl’s generous support is necessary to help Planned Parenthood fight back against unprecedented attacks on people’s health and rights,” Wen said, thanking Sandberg “for her longstanding commitment to Planned Parenthood and her leadership as a role model for women and girls everywhere.”
Wen added: “As anti-women’s health politicians try to pass extreme abortion bans across the country, our freedom and rights hang in the balance.”
This is not the first time Sandberg has given a large donation to the abortion lobby. According to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/sheryl-sandberg-planned-parenthood-donation-abortion-laws-110000334.html">Yahoo! News</a>, she gave a similarly large donation to Planned Parenthood in 2017 to protest President Donald Trump’s order that international abortion lobbying organizations would be banned from receiving federal taxpayer funding.
Actress and left-wing activist Alyssa Milano has led a boycott against the state of Georgia after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “heartbeat bill” that protects unborn children there after a heartbeat is detected.
“I will do everything in my power to get as many productions as possible, including ‘Insatiable,'&#8221; she said at the time. “To move out of this state which continues to put forth oppressive, hurtful policy that contradicts everything the entertainment industry stands for.&#8221;
As noted by The Daily Wire’s James Barrett, actor and director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48874/clint-eastwood-ignores-alyssa-milano-set-start-james-barrett">Clint Eastwood</a> is set to shoot his new film “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” in Georgia, thus ignoring the calls for a boycott. The movie is directed by Eastwood and stars Paul Walter Hauser, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, and Ian Gomez.

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On Tuesday, authorities in Forsyth County, Georgia released body camera footage showing the moment police officers discovered a newborn baby girl that had been abandoned.
The footage, <a href="https://www.cbs46.com/news/police-release-video-of-deputies-finding-baby-india/article_dd18df94-9754-11e9-83f8-4bbc0160c82e.html">posted by CBS46</a>, begins by explaining the conditions surrounding &#8220;Baby India&#8217;s&#8221; discovery.
&#8220;On June 6th, 2019, at approximately 10 p.m., a newborn baby girl was discovered tied in a plastic bag and abandoned on the side of Daves Creek Road in Forsyth County, GA,&#8221; an introduction to the video reads. The bottom of the video contains a graphic content warning.
CBS46 reported that the Forsyth County Sheriff&#8217;s Office released photos of the discovery last week but only released the video this week.
The video shows one officer putting on protective gloves as another watches over the baby. &#8220;Oh, look at you sweetheart,&#8221; the officer says as he tears the plastic bag to get the baby out.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry,&#8221; he says multiple times as officers move to clean up the baby, who still had an umbilical cord attached.
The baby girl cries as officers and paramedics tend to her, wrapping her in blankets.
Pro-life organization Live Action tweeted the video, which you can watch below:
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MUST WATCH: A police body cam captured the moment when heroic officers from <a href="https://twitter.com/ForsythCountySO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ForsythCountySO</a> rescued a baby abandoned in the woods.
Today, the baby is in good health
RT! <a href="https://t.co/Ne76uqb0nm">pic.twitter.com/Ne76uqb0nm</a>
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The sheriff&#8217;s office asks in the video that anyone who may have information about the abandoned baby call them at (770) 888-7308.
CBS46 reported that the police department is still following leads &#8220;in hopes of finding India&#8217;s mother.&#8221; Police also told the outlet that the baby girl is being cared for by the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services and is doing well.
It was hospital workers who named the baby India, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/new-video-shows-moment-deputies-found-abandoned-baby-forsyth-county/twxvGIBonA09t84pJkLoQI/">reported</a>.
Homeowner Alan Ragetz and his daughters heard a strange noise outside the night India was discovered. Ragetz told Channe 2 Action News that he thought it might be a wild animal, but his daughters insisted on finding the source.
The family went into the woods with flashlights and found a pile of leaves.
&#8220;We went down, pulled it up, there was a poor little baby wrapped in a plastic bag,&#8221; Ragetz said. &#8220;She was alive, she was crying, so we figured that was a good sign.&#8221;
He believed the baby was just a few hours old. Sheriff Ron Freeman told the outlet the baby is now almost seven pounds.
&#8220;Somebody knows what happened to this child,&#8221; Freeman said. &#8220;This is a near full-term or full-term baby.&#8221;
Freeman also said police are considering alternatives to the theory that the baby was abandoned by her mother.
&#8220;We want to make sure that we understand how this happened,&#8221; he told Channel 2. &#8220;We want to make sure that we deal with both the criminal investigation, as well as making sure that both the baby and the family that are related are taken care of from the standpoint that they need to be.&#8221;
He also noted Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;safe haven&#8221; law that allows unwanted babies to be left at specified facilities without breaking the law.
&#8220;Georgia (law) provides you&#8217;ve got 30 days to do that, not to leave a baby in the woods,&#8221; Freeman said.

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Despite the Alyssa Milano-led Hollywood boycott of &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; state Georgia, iconic actor and director Clint Eastwood is set to start filming his newest project in the state this summer.
After passing a &#8220;heartbeat bill,&#8221; which bans abortion in almost all cases after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, Georgia, which has become the third-largest film production state in the country, has become the target of a boycott effort endorsed by scores of Hollywood celebs. Leading the charge to pull film production out of the state is outspoken progressive activist Alyssa Milano, who helped generate a protest movement among her colleagues.
&#8220;I will do everything in my power to get as many productions as possible &#8212; including &#8216;Insatiable&#8217; &#8212; to move out of this state which continues to put forth oppressive, hurtful policy that contradicts everything the entertainment industry stands for,&#8221; Milano told <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/alyssa-milano-renews-call-to-boycott-georgia-after-governor-signs-anti-abortion-heartbeat-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TheWrap</a> after Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the abortion bill into law. The boycott threatens the billions the state makes in direct revenue through the film industry, including around <a href="http://fortune.com/2019/05/30/georgia-abortion-law-disney-netflix-nbcuniversal/">$2.7 billion</a> last year.
Other high-profile celebrities and some studios have gotten on board or threatened to do so, despite failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams urging them to consider an approach that doesn&#8217;t hurt the state, including donating to groups and candidates that will fight pro-life policies.
But as NBC News-affiliate <a href="https://www.wcnc.com/video/news/politics/clint-eastwood-will-produce-new-movie-in-georgia-despite-abortion-bill-boycott/275-6b394e02-ec0b-4b69-9cdd-6e89d0ed1242">WCNC</a> reports, one big name that is apparently not inclined to follow Milano&#8217;s progressive movement is Eastwood. &#8220;Legendary actor Clint Eastwood says he will start production on &#8216;The Ballad of Richard Jewell&#8217; this summer,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;The news comes after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, leading to boycotts from the movie and TV industry.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3513548/">The Ballad of Richard Jewell</a>,&#8221; which Eastwood is directing, stars Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, and Ian Gomez. &#8220;American security guard, Richard Jewell, heroically saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is unjustly vilified by journalists and the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist,&#8221; the film&#8217;s IMDB description reads.
Among those who are backing the Georgia boycott are &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star Sophie Turner and her &#8220;Dark Phoenix&#8221; co-star Jessica Chastain. In an interview with <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/jessica-chastain-and-sophie-turner-vow-to-boycott-us-states-with-strict-abortion-laws-11728080">Sky News</a>, the two stars explained that they both signed the letter along with dozens of their colleagues pledging to boycott states with restrictive pro-life laws.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a letter going around that I signed saying I&#8217;m not going to work in any state that denies rights for women, for the LGBTQ community, for anyone,&#8221; said Chastain. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to work in a state that discriminates.&#8221;
&#8220;I signed it too,&#8221; said Turner. &#8220;I have yet to tell my agents I signed it. They&#8217;re going to be like: &#8216;What? You can&#8217;t work in these states?&#8217; Yeah, I can&#8217;t work in these states.&#8221;
But as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47891/sophie-turner-vows-never-work-anti-abortion-states-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Turner appears to have been less enthused to talk when asked about her work for years on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; &#8212; the majority of which was filmed in Northern Ireland, which, as <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/northern-ireland-abortion-alabama_n_5cdeb86de4b00e035b8e9e07">HuffPost</a> put it, has &#8220;some of the most restrictive abortion laws of any developed nation.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47891/sophie-turner-vows-never-work-anti-abortion-states-james-barrett">Sophie Turner Vows To Never Work In Anti-Abortion States, Gets Asked About Where &#8216;Game Of Thrones&#8217; Was Filmed</a>

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Even though practically all of Hollywood and various tech companies have threatened to boycott Georgia if lawmakers do not overturn the recently enacted fetal heartbeat law, the state&#8217;s largest employer&#8212; Delta Airlines &#8212; has opted to stay neutral.
&#8220;Delta Air Lines is one of the largest employers in Georgia, but the airline&#8217;s chief executive said Tuesday the company will not take a stand on the state&#8217;s restrictive abortion law, which other corporate leaders have called &#8216;bad for business,'&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/atlanta-based-delta-isn-t-taking-sides-uncomfortable-georgia-abortion-n1016786?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a>.
The fetal heartbeat law essentially bans abortion once doctors detect an unborn child&#8217;s heartbeat in the mother&#8217;s womb, which typically happens after 5-6 weeks of pregnancy. Ed Bastian, Delta Airlines CEO, said that the courts should decide the law&#8217;s fate.
&#8220;This is something that the courts need to settle and resolve, not corporate America. At least for us. I can&#8217;t win,&#8221; Bastian said at Recode&#8217;s annual Code Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Bastian added that the company did not want to take a stand on &#8220;an issue that is uncomfortable&#8221; for the many employees and customers that patronize Delta Airlines. &#8220;We carry 200 million people a year, we have 80,000 employees,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We cannot as a company take one group and put it over another group when you&#8217;ve got such an emotional &#8212; some would say almost religious &#8212; view as to what the right answer is.&#8221;
Last week, CEOs from more than 180 companies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48241/ceos-180-companies-including-twitter-and-hm-pen-emily-zanotti">released an ad in The New York Times</a> denouncing the abortion bans in states like Georgia and Alabama as being &#8220;bad for business.&#8221;
&#8220;Equality in the workplace is one of the most important business issues of our time,&#8221; the ad stated. &#8220;When everyone is empowered to succeed, our companies, our communities, and our economy are better for it. Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence and economic stability of our employees and customers. Simply put, it goes against our values, and is bad for business.&#8221;
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL, publicly thanked the CEOs for &#8220;taking a stand on behalf of employees.&#8221;
&#8220;NARAL applauds the business leaders signing the #DontBanEquality letter for taking a stand on behalf of their employees, customers, and communities, and affirming the mainstream view that women deserve to be able to make private, personal medical decisions without politicians interfering,&#8221; Hogue said.
At the same time, major Hollywood studios, from Netflix to Disney to NBCUniversal, have all threatened to boycott filming in the state of Georgia if the heartbeat law does not get overturned by the courts.
&#8220;I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard,&#8221; Disney CEO Bob Iger told Reuters. &#8220;Right now we are watching it very carefully. If [the bill] becomes law, I don&#8217;t see how it&#8217;s practical for us to continue to shoot there.&#8221;
Knowing full well that film companies will suffer huge financial losses if they renounce Georgia&#8217;s generous tax breaks, actress and abortion advocate Alyssa Milano released an actual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48427/alyssa-milano-releases-abortion-map-where-paul-bois">abortion map</a> where companies should and should not film.

Delta Airlines Refuses To Boycott Georgia Over Abortion Laws

In recent years, generous tax credits have brought a wave of Hollywood productions to Georgia. Then the state legislature passed, and the governor signed a very protective pro-life bill. The reaction was furious. How can the will of the people stand?
Network reporters, all aligned with movie and TV studios, pronounced that their conscientious corporate overlords might forgo the tax breaks to show their support for untrammeled abortion, even though there is no demand from their shareholders &#8212; their owners &#8212; that they do any such thing.
None of these major media companies felt any anger or angst when the state of New York did just the opposite in January, passing a bill that would allow abortions up to birth &#8212; and allow non-doctors to perform them. These leftist networks barely noticed the bill was passed and signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as legislators cheered &#8230; because that&#8217;s the kind of America they want, in all 50 states.
But now power players in Hollywood have rushed to the ramparts of Georgia. Peter Chernin, who worked for Rupert Murdoch for decades, announced a campaign to raise $15 million for the American Civil Liberties Union to fight any abortion restrictions in Georgia and other red states. ACLU boss Anthony Romero gushed to CNN, &#8220;Peter Chernin&#8217;s leadership in Hollywood has been critical to sounding the alarm among industry leaders.&#8221;
Chernin, like the typical self-interested Hollywood executive, wants the tax benefits and an overturned pro-life bill.
David Simon, the creator of &#8220;The Wire&#8221; and other TV shows, said he would boycott Georgia and that Hollywood &#8220;must undertake production where the rights of all citizens remain intact.&#8221; In Tinseltown&#8217;s utopia, unborn babies do not have the right to remain intact.
Miley Cyrus, so far removed from her teenage Disney Channel days, not to mention taste, was pictured licking a round white cake with the sides covered with rainbow sprinkles that read &#8220;ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE.&#8221;
George Orwell, call your bakery. Perhaps there should have been a disclosure saying that &#8220;no bakers were harmed in the creation of this cake.&#8221;
There were some terrific tweets about this picture. LifeNews.com was amazed, saying, &#8220;The irony of @MileyCyrus using a birthday cake to promote abortions when abortions deny babies a birthday.&#8221;
Ben Sixsmith wrote, &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting how the right to kill the unborn is advertised with such neotenous aesthetics. Children get in the way of adults behaving like children.&#8221; (&#8220;Neotenous&#8221; is a $10 Bill Buckley word for &#8220;juvenile.&#8221;)
A tweet from the fashion brand Marc Jacobs features Cyrus topless in jeans holding two grapefruits in front of her breasts. That was part of the design of a hooded sweatshirt by Marc Jacobs that says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t F&#8212;- With My Freedom.&#8221; It&#8217;s a lyric in her new single called &#8230; &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Daughter.&#8221; The lyrics that follow aren&#8217;t on the shirt: &#8220;I&#8217;m nasty, I&#8217;m evil / Must be something in the water or that I&#8217;m my mother&#8217;s daughter.&#8221;
All proceeds from the hoodie sales go to Planned Parenthood. One hoodie costs $175.
Cyrus was a fervent backer of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign in 2016 and runs a nonprofit called the Happy Hippie Foundation, whose stated mission is &#8220;to rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations.&#8221;
Isn&#8217;t it amazing that the left is so fixated on feminist ideology and consequence-free sex that it cannot see the unborn babies as the most &#8220;vulnerable population&#8221; in America? Unborn babies are not merely dehumanized in abortion activism. They are not even an afterthought. They are literally and metaphorically obliterated.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

BOZELL &#038; GRAHAM: Abortion Is Sacred In Hollywood

Even though Stacey Abrams lost her Georgia gubernatorial bid by more than 50,000 votes, the supposedly moderate Mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Thursday that the failed Democratic candidate is the rightful governor of the state that flatly rejected her.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/06/buttigieg-stacey-abrams-1356457">Politico</a>, Buttigieg spoke at the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s African American Leadership Summit in Atlanta where he alleged that Abrams lost the election due to voter suppression by Republicans.
&#8220;Stacey Abrams ought to be the governor of Georgia,&#8221; Buttigieg told his audience, prompting rounds of applause. &#8220;When racially motivated voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that politicians get to choose their voters instead of the other way around, when money is allowed to outvote people in this country, we cannot truly say we live in a democracy.&#8221;
Stacey Abrams lost her bid to become governor of Georgia when Republican Brian Kemp defeated her by a margin of nearly 55,000 votes &#8212; 1,978,408 to 1,923,685. Despite the gap, she refused to concede by claiming the election had been stolen. Several weeks later, she finally &#8220;acknowledged&#8221; her loss to Brian Kemp after nearly threatening to sue in order to force a runoff election.
&#8220;I acknowledge that former Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election,&#8221; Abrams said at the time. &#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: This is not a speech of concession because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that.&#8221;
Her opponent Brian Kemp later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38456/watch-stacey-abrams-concedes-election-theres-twist-ryan-saavedra">refuted</a> Abrams&#8217; claims that the election was somehow &#8220;stolen&#8221; from her, noting that one county she complained about was controlled by Democrats.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s just a mistruth. The county elections officials, the local elections boards have the sole responsibility for how many polling locations they have and where they are,&#8221; Kemp told Fox News. &#8220;That has been the rule of law and the way it works in Georgia under Republican and Democrat Secretaries of State. So that&#8217;s just not true. And by the way, the one county that this was an issue with before the election, they&#8217;re controlled by Democrats. She&#8217;s blaming me for a problem that they created and it&#8217;s just ridiculous.&#8221;
&#8220;We have laws on the books in Georgia, and I know she may not like some of the laws, but we take an oath of office and the county officials have a duty to follow the law and the elections rules that we have in our state,&#8221; Kemp continued. &#8220;We check citizenship. We require people to show photo ID when they vote. And we verify this information before people go on the voter rolls.&#8221;
Buttigieg has increasingly proven himself to be a radical in contrast to his image of being a middle-of-the-road Democrat.He has now endorsed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-calls-for-scrapping-death-penalty-supporting-slave-reparations">slavery reparations</a>, late-term abortion, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-candidates-hyde-amendment-abortion_n_5cf964b5e4b06af8b50570bd">repealing</a> the Hyde Amendment, and even <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/pete-buttigieg-says-trump-deserves-to-be-impeached-calls-on-congress-for-action-1499990083704">impeaching</a> President Trump.

Buttigieg: Stacey Abrams Is Georgia’s Rightful Governor

Pete Buttigieg

Filmmaker Spike Lee has made much of his career featuring race as an issue and earned the first Oscar of his career with a film that compared President Trump to the Ku Klux Klan. It seems, however, that it means little to him that millions of black babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade or the fact that Democrats support an organization <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/high-school/planned-parenthood-and-racism/">founded by a racist eugenicist</a> who once spoke at a Klan rally.
Speaking with reporters outside of the American Film Institute&#8217;s lifetime achievement tribute to actor Denzel Washington this week, Spike Lee said Hollywood should commit to boycotting the state of Georgia for protecting unborn children through the passing of the fetal heartbeat bill. He even compared the movement to the civil rights movement&#8217;s famous Montgomery bus boycott.
&#8220;They got to shut it down, you know?&#8221; Spike Lee said, according to the <a href="https://www.apnews.com/7a6057d36bcf4f55b767ba5fd98eae65">Associated Press</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry &#8212; I&#8217;m not sorry &#8212; but I know it&#8217;s going to affect people&#8217;s livelihood, but that&#8217;s how things change.&#8221;
&#8220;There were black bus drivers in Montgomery and they were affected by the boycott but so be it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be on the right side of history, and the state of Georgia and those other states, they&#8217;re wrong.&#8221;
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Ironically, Spike Lee is not the only black activist to mention the Montgomery bus boycott as a precedent for forcing Georgia to kill unborn children (black and white alike). Most recently, former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47653/kareem-abdul-jabbar-banning-abortions-turns-women-paul-bois">penned a scathing op-ed</a> in The Hollywood Reporter where he denounced the Georgia and Alabama laws as tools of control by white supremacists.
&#8220;Right now the stains include Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and other states passing restrictive abortion legislation that reduces women to baby incubators,&#8221; wrote the former NBA star. &#8220;The time has come for Americans to defend the principles of the Constitution &#8230; For now, one of the best ways to do that is through boycotting the offending states.&#8221;
&#8220;A boycott is a clear statement that we value conscience over commerce,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It means stop doing business with or in these states. For Hollywood, stop making films there. For businesses, stop buying their products or holding conventions or building there. For the average person, don&#8217;t visit. No tourism dollars. And we continue this practice until legislators reverse the policies or are removed from office. When the Writers Guild of America, of which I am a member, is willing to boycott talent agencies over packaging practices, certainly they would endorse boycotting states that demean many of their members.&#8221;
Jordan Peele, another social justice activist, has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47077/jordan-peele-jj-abrams-vow-fight-georgia-over-paul-bois">endorsed the Georgia boycott</a>. Yet even failed gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-stacey-abrams-abortion-film-boycott-georgia-california-20180515-story.html">said that</a> people protesting the heartbeat bill in Georgia should do so by other means, not boycotts.
&#8220;While I understand the calls for a boycott in Georgia, I&#8217;m going to follow a different path,&#8221; Abrams told the Los Angeles Times. &#8220;I think the superior opportunity for Georgia, in the specific, is to actually use the entertainment industry&#8217;s energy to support and fund the work that we need to do on the ground because Georgia is on the cusp of being able to transform our political system.&#8221;

WATCH: Spike Lee Calls For Georgia Boycott, Compares It To Civil Rights Battle

Spike Lee

Though Netflix threatens to boycott the state of Georgia for passing a fetal heartbeat law to protect unborn children from abortion, the company still films in countries like Jordan and Egypt, where abortion is illegal.
Earlier this week, Netflix helped start a chain reaction of major studios threatening to boycott Georgia if lawmakers did not overturn the fetal heartbeat law.
&#8220;We have many women working on productions in Georgia, whose rights, along with millions of others, will be severely restricted by this law,&#8221; Netflix&#8217;s chief content officer Ted Sarandos told <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/features/abortion-laws-hollywood-studios-netflix-1203225843/">Variety</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s why we will work with the ACLU and others to fight it in court. Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we&#8217;ll continue to film there, while also supporting partners and artists who choose not to. Should it ever come into effect, we&#8217;d rethink our entire investment in Georgia.&#8221;
Netflix was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47877/major-studios-join-disney-georgia-boycott-over-paul-bois">later joined</a> by Disney, NBCUniversal, CBS, Showtime, and WarnerMedia with similar calls to boycott Georgia throughout the week. But, as noted by <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/05/30/netflix-continues-filming-shows-in-middle-east-where-abortion-is-illegal-despite-boycotting-georgia/">LifeNews</a>, Netflix is clearly willing to work in heavily abortion-restrictive countries.
According to<a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/netflix-steps-up-middle-east-production-with-third-arabic-original-paranormal-1203226368/"> Variety</a>, on the very same week that Netflix threatened Georgia, the company began working on its third Arabic original, titled &#8220;Paranormal,&#8221; which will, of course, be produced in Egypt. From the report:
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<a data-tag="netflix" href="https://variety.com/t/netflix/">Netflix</a> is stepping up production in the Middle East with its third and most ambitious Arabic original, titled &#8220;Paranormal,&#8221; with young Egyptian director <a data-tag="amr-salama" href="https://variety.com/t/amr-salama/">Amr Salama</a> (&#8220;Sheikh Jackson&#8221;) on board as director and showrunner.
&#8220;Paranormal,&#8221; based on bestselling Arabic horror books by late Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, is being jointly produced by Salama and prominent Egyptian indie producer <a data-tag="mohammed-hefzy" href="https://variety.com/t/mohammed-hefzy/">Mohammed Hefzy</a>, whose Film Clinic shingle is known internationally for churning out a stream of edgy titles such as &#8220;Microphone,&#8221; &#8220;Sheikh Jackson&#8221; and &#8220;Yomeddine.&#8221;
The series, set in the 1960s, marks the streaming giant&#8217;s first foray into a drama produced in Egypt, which is historically the Arab world&#8217;s production powerhouse. &#8220;Paranormal&#8221; depicts the adventures of lead character Dr. Refaat Ismail, a hematologist who finds himself &#8220;faced with a series of supernatural events.&#8221;
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As many as three Netflix original series are shot in the Middle East, two of which are produced in Jordan &#8211; &#8220;Jinn&#8221; and &#8220;Al Rawabi School for Girls.&#8221;
So how restrictive are the abortion laws in both Jordan and Egypt? According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/disney-would-leave-georgia-abortion-jordan/">Washington Free Beacon</a>, Jordan restricts abortion in nearly all cases except in cases when the life or mental health of the mother is at risk. People in violation of those laws face imprisonment. The country Jordan also provided locations for parts of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Aladdin,&#8221; another studio threatening Georgia.
Over in Egypt, the Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/2008/09/30/abortion-laws-around-the-world/#middleeast">reports</a> that the country has maintained a ban on abortion in nearly all circumstances since 1937.
&#8220;The Egyptian Penal Code of 1937 bans abortion in all circumstances, but criminal law allows flexibility on grounds of &#8216;necessity,'&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Physicians rely on that principle to justify performing an abortion when they believe the mother&#8217;s life or health is in danger or in cases of fetal abnormality. A committee of physicians must agree that the abortion is acceptable within the confines of the law.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47891/sophie-turner-vows-never-work-anti-abortion-states-james-barrett">Sophie Turner Vows To Never Work In Anti-Abortion States, Gets Asked About Where &#8216;Game Of Thrones&#8217; Was Filmed</a>

Hypocrites: Netflix Films In Middle Eastern Countries As It Threatens Georgia Over Abortion Law

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It began with only a few stars and a handful of production companies. Now, Hollywood&#8217;s fever to boycott Georgia for protecting its unborn children has spread to nearly every major studio.
On Thursday, following Disney and Netflix&#8217;s vow to boycott filming in the state, WarnerMedia, CBS, Showtime, NBCUniversal, AMC Networks, Sony Pictures, STX and Viacom all said they would boycott the state of Georgia if the recently-enacted fetal heartbeat bill is allowed to stand, according to <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/05/warnermedia-nbcuniversal-georgia-abortion-law-reaction-hollywood-productions-1202624336/">Deadline</a>.
In a statement on Thursday, WarnerMedia said that the studio will be watching the &#8220;situation closely&#8221; in Georgia and will consider withdrawing productions if Georgia does not strike down the law.
&#8220;We operate and produce work in many states and within several countries at any given time and while that doesn&#8217;t mean we agree with every position taken by a state or a country and their leaders, we do respect due process,&#8221; WarnerMedia said. &#8220;We will watch the situation closely and if the new law holds we will reconsider Georgia as the home to any new productions. As is always the case, we will work closely with our production partners and talent to determine how and where to shoot any given project.&#8221;
CBS and Showtime issued a joint statement in which they vowed to stand with &#8220;creative voices&#8221; across the industry who have voiced their disapproval for the Georgia law.
&#8220;Creative voices across our industry have expressed strong concern about the recently signed bill in Georgia,&#8221; said the two companies. &#8220;The ability to attract the best talent is the first step in producing great entertainment content and is always an important consideration in where we film any series.&#8221;
Once again, CBS and Showtime both said that they will be &#8220;monitoring&#8221; the legislation in Georgia to see if it gets struck down by the courts. They will continue shooting in the state until further notice.
NBCUniversal also promised to monitor the legislation, hoping that a serious court challenge will keep it from going into effect.
&#8220;We fully expect that the heartbeat bills and similar laws in various states will face serious legal challenges and will not go into effect while the process proceeds in court,&#8221; said NBCUniversal. &#8220;If any of these laws are upheld, it would strongly impact our decision-making on where we produce our content in the future.&#8221;
AMC Networks has long relied on Georgia&#8217;s generous tax plan for its hit series &#8220;The Walking Dead.&#8221; They too have also threatened to cease filming in the state should the fetal heartbeat bill be allowed to stand.
&#8220;If this highly restrictive legislation goes into effect, we will reevaluate our activity in Georgia,&#8221; AMC Networks said. &#8220;Similar bills &#8211; some even more restrictive &#8211; have passed in multiple states and have been challenged. This is likely to be a long and complicated fight and we are watching it all very closely.&#8221;
The boycott against Georgia took an ugly turn this week when both Netflix and Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47819/disney-ceo-signals-withdrawal-georgia-over-amanda-prestigiacomo">promised to withdraw filming</a> in the state if the heartbeat bill remained.
&#8220;I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully,&#8221; said Disney CEO Bob Iger. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how it&#8217;s practical for us to continue to shoot there.&#8221;

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